Greatest (1998)

At the dawn of the 1980s, Duran Duran was part of Britain's "futurist" or "new romantic" scene, which merged glam-rock attitude with disco beats and synthesizers to form an intensely fashion-conscious variant on new wave. With their good looks and pop hooks, the group ruled the music world for the first half of the decade. After that, there were numerous side projects (Arcadia, Power Station) and personnel changes, but the original band reunited to much ado in 2003.

Artist Influences
Blondie | Chic | David Bowie | Donna Summer (Vocalist) | ESG | Gary Numan | Japan (Rock) | Kraftwerk | Liquid Liquid | Little Yellow Perfect | Marc Bolan | Roxy Music | Sly & the Family Stone | The Cars | The Sex Pistols | The Velvet Underground | Ultravox

Artist Contemporaries
A Flock of Seagulls | a-ha | ABC | Adam & The Ants | Adam Ant | Animotion | Blancmange | Bow Wow Wow | Buggles | Classix Nouveaux | Culture Club | Dead or Alive | Depeche Mode | Eurythmics | Fine Young Cannibals | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | General Public | George Michael | Heaven 17 | Howard Jones | INXS | Japan (Rock) | Kamera | Madonna | Marc Almond | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (O.M.D.) | Pet Shop Boys | Re-Flex (New Wave) | Real Life | Simple Minds | Soft Cell | Spandau Ballet | Split Enz | Talk Talk | Tears for Fears | The Associates | The Fixx | The Human League | Thomas Dolby | Ultravox | Visage

Artist Followers
Alphaville (German) | Blur | Freur | Kajagoogoo | King | Nancy Boy | No Doubt | Savage Garden | Scissor Sisters | Sister Hazel | The Dandy Warhols | The Echoing Green | The Faint | The Killers (US) | The Rentals | The Sounds